DV shelters lose eight
months of funding
At least Lorena Halwood can now empathize with her clients even more. “I now know what it feels like to be emotionally abused,” she declared after reading a letter from the Navajo Nation Department of Family Services. “I feel like crying.”
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Saving Lives: Domestic violence shelter ADABI serves survivor of abuse
A blister had formed on her foot from walking more than 10 miles along U.S. Highway 191. The pain from the busted blister did not faze the 58-year-old domestic abuse survivor as she dabbed Vaseline on it.
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Coalition forms to help DV shelters
Radmilla Cody had already been thinking about the plight of domestic abuse victims during the COVID-19 pandemic when she read an article in the Navajo Times about the funding for the Nation’s domestic violence shelters being delayed for eight months.
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‘This year has been a challenge’: Domestic violence shelters face ongoing battle for money
No thanks to the Navajo government’s red tape called the “164 review and signature process,” Amá Dóó Áłchíní Bíghan Inc. has managed to continue operating as it requested funds for the 2019-20 fiscal year.